Our unique Town Clock, “the only Town clock in the world to strike on ship’s time,” * was designed, installed, and maintained by Lawrence “Duffy” Gardinier in the steeple of the Congregational Church in 1952.
The first Billingsgate Meeting House on Chequessett Neck had been replaced in 1740 by a larger Meeting House with a second burying ground, now officially “the Old Town Cemetery” at the head of Duck Creek.
When the Town of Wellfleet was incorporated in 1763, townspeople voted “to support the ministry and a school.”
This present Congregational Church was built in 1850 here on Main Street, “with steeple and bell”, at a cost of $12,000.
Methodists who had built their own church on Main Street, were exempted from the portion of Town Taxes that supported “the ministry.”
* So designated in RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT newspaper column
In Congregational Church
Steeple on Main Street
Steeple on Main Street
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